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The Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share this image. Touring Egypt 32: One of nature’s most unusual animals looks like a plant. Divers see these all over the world’s oceans, but we usually don’t think too much about it. Our eyes see a crinoid, and we automatically think of it as a […]

The Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt “The Class”Click here to share or send a greeting with this image.Touring Egypt 18: New divers arriving at Sharm el-Sheikh always have at least one “check-out” dive before joining the longer boat trips to the famous dive sites of the Red Sea. One of the places favored by the […]

The Red Sea, Ras Muhammad, Egypt “Bubbles“View or share this image at Flickr. “So Long!“View or share this image at Flickr. Touring Egypt 14: Nothing can be more exhilarating than to float weightless through a cloud of bubbles and brightly colored fish; to be completely at ease, literally surrounded by colors and lightness as you […]

The Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. Touring Egypt 6: Whoa! What the heck was that!?!? I and my ubiquitous camera are cruising with my group at about 60 feet on a boat dive* at Woodhouse Reef in the Straits of Tiran (the Red Sea). […]

Red Sea, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Click here to share or send a greeting with this image. “Touring Egypt” series, number 2: The “Paradise” dive site is a favorite for night dives in Sharm el-Sheikh. The site is very compact and offers a rich abundance of life, ranging from spanish dancers to sleeping parrotfish and groupers, […]

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"The Photo Tourist" in this case is Rick Collier: a photographer and writer who has spent over three decades traveling the world, writing, and making images underwater and of destinations, landscapes, nature, and historic and cultural subjects. This is my blog about traveling and photography and what happens when they meet; about worldwide destinations and learning experiences.